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Does option 2 mean I could use a pair of squadrons and have a bezel around them for a factory look?
Will you be selling the mounting kits on their own for those of us that already have lights in hand?
So yes, and no.
The reason for a 2 light kit is to have room for a close out panel. Putting 3 in there won’t have the room.
There is a balance between producing something that is cost effective and producing something that is so expensive to produce that no one wants to buy it.
If you manufacture in extreme quantities like 20,000 pieces like ford did with the stock light housings, it’s way cheaper than 500 at a time.
That being said, we always want to build the best quality and most oem to integrate.
So the initial plan is to have a close out panel out of black powder coated sheet metal that sits against the opening and surrounds the lights, closing out the extra space.
That keeps that type of bracket in a better price range. We also plan to look at doing a replacement abs plastic panel similar like Ford has with those small Rigids.
Notice that those are just square openings surrounding the lights. They are angled and sloped because the light angles outward wide. Not straight. So putting them in a box can block some light. So with that option, we want it to be more identical to the oem design.
Now, doing those panels requires a lot of cost and time. The molds alone for the panels are approx $30,000. So that’s why they end up being so much more expensive than the sheet metal panel/bezel. Also, it takes a lot more time. Most people want a solution now. Getting the plastic panels done will take approx 3-5 months between design, our production company cnc’ing and making the metal mold to mold them and then production and then getting them to us.
That being said, we are working on making that metal panel and plastic panel interchangeable. So if you get one here soon with the metal panel, and later want to swap it for the plastic one, you can.
Here is an example of what I mean by metal close out panel.